Information blackout still shrouds investigation of shocking murder of Ontario resto owner

Fourteen months later, Owen Sound citizens continue to deal with a troubling lack of information about a murder that cast a cloud of anxiety over the city.
The handling of the information in the Sharif Rahman case by the police has raised questions about secrecy and the need to maintain an open justice system.

OTTAWA—On a warm summer night in August 2023, three white men went into The Curry House restaurant in downtown Owen Sound, Ont., a small city about two hours’ drive north of Toronto at the base of the Bruce Peninsula.

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